...a photoBook is an autonomous art form, comparable with a piece of sculpture, a play or a film. The photographs lose their own photographic character as things 'in themselves' and become parts, translated into printing ink, of a dramatic event called a book...
- Dutch photography critic Ralph Prins

zaterdag 11 augustus 2012

Then and Now Hollywood Boulevard, from Sunset Plaza Drive in the East to Hillhurst Avenue in the West Ed Ruscha Photography

Then and Now

Viewing Then and Now is like reading a historical timeline or a street map. In 1973, he photographed every building along a six-and-a-half-mile stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, from Sunset Plaza Drive in the East to Hillhurst Avenue in the West. He made contact sheets of the rolls of images and put them away in a box. Thirty-one years later, in 2004, he photographed the same route again, only this time with color film. The filmstrips put us in motion, as if we are in the passenger seat of the car looking out the side window. See for